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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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All art is exploitation.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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One play can change your momentum forever.
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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